OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #824870
ELLICOTT MACHINE CORPORATION
BALTIMORE, MD·
Event description
Employee's finger amputated by blade
Investigation abstract
At 10:30 a.m. on December 4, 1988, Employee #1 was using an unguarded angle cutt ing section of a type 210-16 Peddinghaus Ironworker to cut a 1 1/2 in. piece of 1 ft 2 in. by 1 ft 2 in. angle stock. He was using his right hand to hold the pi ece to be cut so that it would not fall. As he pulled the operating lever with h is left hand, the cutting blade with stripper plate came down on his right index finger, amputating the tip. He was hospitalized.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 1
- Part of body
- 10
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 26
- Occupation code
- 655
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 3
- Task assigned
- 1
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